Acknowledgements from the Project Team go to:
• OSCE Centre in Bishkek and OSCE field office in Osh, for their financial support and assistance in
conducting the research and publishing this Report.
• Freedom House’s Strengthening Human Rights in Kyrgyzstan Project, for its financial support and
assistance in monitoring detention conditions at TDFs.
• KR Ombudsman Tursunbek Akun and his office for their assistance in ensuring access for the monitoring
teams to KR IAB TDFs and active involvement in conducting the research.
• Arman Danielyan, President of the Civil Society Institute (Yerevan, Armenia) and member of the
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture under the UN Committee Against Torture, for his expert
support in training the observers and developing unified tools for monitoring of IAB TDFs.
The project team highly appreciates the assistance of the management and staff of IAB and the monitored IAB
TDFs of the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as persons in custody interviewed, in conducting the research.